Rather than being Siddhartha 's goddess, Kamala is his Temptation. She was beautiful, intelligent and he was infatuated with her from the moment he saw …show more content…
He talks with Govinda, and reaches for a stone to demonstrate that life encompasses everything and nothing is just its physical self. He lifts the stone to his friends and says, “I see value and meaning in each of its fine markings and cavities, in yellow, in gray, the the hardness...each one is different and worships Om in its own way ; each one is Brahman (145)”. He now understands that life and time are not linear, that even though the stone is just a stone, it is also everything and anything. This allows Siddhartha to live freely and take one step at a time, no longer fearing the unknown such as